Whether you just found out that you're expecting or your due date is fast approaching, find out what you need to know about pregnancy, childbirth, and preparing for parenthood.
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Your Pregnancy
- 10 Things That Might Surprise You About Being Pregnant
- Are All X-Rays Risky During Pregnancy?
- Are Ultrasound "Snapshots" of Your Unborn Baby a Good Idea?
- Birth Plans
- Eating During Pregnancy
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- Exercising During Pregnancy
- Folic Acid and Pregnancy
- Genetic Counseling
- Group B Strep and Pregnancy
- How Becoming Parents Can Affect Your Relationship
- How Do You Treat Pregnancy Hemorrhoids and Constipation?
- Medical Care During Pregnancy
- Miscarriages
- Newborn Screening Tests
- Pregnancy Myths and Tales
- Pregnancy Precautions: FAQs
- Prenatal Tests
- Rh Incompatibility
- Severe Morning Sickness (Hyperemesis Gravidarum)
- Sex During Pregnancy
- Sleeping During Pregnancy
- Staying Healthy During Pregnancy
- Surviving Bed Rest
- What Can I Do to Relieve My Pregnancy Backaches?
- What Can I Do to Stop Passing Gas During My Pregnancy?
- What Does "High-Risk" Pregnancy Mean?
- What Is Gestational Diabetes?
- What Is the Apgar Score?
- What Is the Multiple Marker Test?
- When Your Teen Is Having a Baby
Preparing for Parenthood
- A Guide for First-Time Parents
- All About Genetics
- Auto Safety
- Becoming a Father
- Birth Plans
- Birth of a Second Child
- Birthing Centers and Hospital Maternity Services
- Birthing Classes
- Booster Seat Safety
- Can Getting Immunizations Affect My Unborn Baby?
- Car Seat Safety
- Childproofing and Preventing Household Accidents
- Choosing Safe Baby Products
- Choosing Safe Baby Products: Back Carriers
- Choosing Safe Baby Products: Bathtubs
- Choosing Safe Baby Products: Changing Tables
- Choosing Safe Baby Products: Cribs
- Choosing Safe Baby Products: Gates
- Choosing Safe Baby Products: Infant Seats & Child Safety Seats
- Choosing Safe Baby Products: Playpens
- Choosing Safe Baby Products: Strollers
- Choosing Safe Baby Products: The Dangers of Walkers
- Choosing Safe Baby Products: Toys
- Cord-Blood Banking
- Finding a Doctor for Your New Baby
- Genetic Counseling
- How Becoming Parents Can Affect Your Relationship
- Newborn Screening Tests
- Parenting Multiples
- Postpartum Depression
- Prenatal Tests
- Preparing Your Child for a New Sibling
- Preparing for Multiple Births
- When Your Teen Is Having a Baby
Childbirth
- Barbara's Birth Story
- Birth Plans
- Birthing Centers and Hospital Maternity Services
- Birthing Classes
- Cesarean Sections (C-Sections)
- Choking
- Cord-Blood Banking
- Dealing With Pain During Childbirth
- Epidurals
- Inducing Labor
- Lena's Birth Story
- Looking at Your Newborn: What's Normal
- Midwives
- Natural Childbirth
- Recovering From Delivery
- Samala's Birth Story
- The First Day of Life
- Your Child's First Checkup: The Hospital
Newborn Care
- A Guide for First-Time Parents
- A Primer on Preemies
- Bonding With Your Baby
- Booster Seat Safety
- Breastfeeding FAQs: Getting Started
- Breastfeeding FAQs: How Much and How Often
- Breastfeeding FAQs: Out and About
- Breastfeeding FAQs: Pain and Discomfort
- Breastfeeding FAQs: Pumping
- Breastfeeding FAQs: Safely Storing Breast Milk
- Breastfeeding FAQs: Sleep - Yours and Your Baby's
- Breastfeeding FAQs: Solids and Supplementing
- Breastfeeding FAQs: Some Common Concerns
- Breastfeeding FAQs: Supply and Demand
- Breastfeeding FAQs: Your Eating and Drinking Habits
- Breastfeeding vs. Formula Feeding
- Bringing Your Baby Home
- Burping Your Baby
- Can I Feed My Baby Honey?
- Car Seat Safety
- Choking
- Circumcision
- Communication and Your Newborn
- Constipation
- Cosleeping and Your Baby
- Could That Lump Be a Hernia?
- Cradle Cap (Infantile Seborrheic Dermatitis)
- Diaper Rash
- Diapering Your Baby
- Feeding Your 1- to 3-Month-Old
- Feeding Your Newborn
- Finding a Doctor for Your New Baby
- Formula Feeding FAQs: Getting Started
- Formula Feeding FAQs: How Much and How Often
- Formula Feeding FAQs: Preparation and Storage
- Formula Feeding FAQs: Some Common Concerns
- Formula Feeding FAQs: Starting Solids and Milk
- Formula Feeding FAQs: Supplementing
- Frequently Asked Questions About Immunizations
- Growth Charts
- Growth and Your Newborn
- How Can I Overcome Breastfeeding Difficulties?
- How to Talk to Your Child's Doctor
- I Love My New Baby. So, Why Am I Sad?
- Immunization Schedule
- Is My Baby Ready for Shoes?
- Jaundice in Healthy Newborns
- Laundering Your Baby's Clothes
- Learning, Play, and Your Newborn
- Looking at Your Newborn: What's Normal
- Medical Care and Your 1- to 3-Month-Old
- Medical Care and Your 4- to 7-Month-Old
- Medical Care and Your Newborn
- Medical Issues in Adoption
- Milk Allergy in Infants
- Movement, Coordination, and Your Newborn
- Newborn Screening Tests
- Nursing Positions
- Oral Thrush
- Pyloric Stenosis
- Sleep and Newborns
- Stopping the Bottle
- Taking Your Preemie Home
- Teething Tots
- The Facts on Undescended Testicles
- The First Day of Life
- The Senses and Your Newborn
- Trimming Your Baby's Nails
- Weaning Your Child
- Your Child's Checkup: 2 to 4 Weeks
- Your Child's First Checkup: The Hospital
- Your Child's Immunizations
- Your Colicky Baby
Newborn Health Conditions
- A Primer on Preemies
- Abusive Head Trauma (Shaken Baby Syndrome)
- Apnea of Prematurity
- Birth Defects
- Birthmarks
- Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD)
- Circumcision
- Cleft Lip and Palate
- Common Diagnoses in the NICU
- Constipation
- Could That Lump Be a Hernia?
- Cradle Cap (Infantile Seborrheic Dermatitis)
- Diaper Rash
- Egg Allergy
- Erythema Toxicum
- Failure to Thrive
- Febrile Seizures
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Hemangiomas: Suzanne's Story
- Hunger and Malnutrition
- If Your Child Has a Heart Defect
- Infant Torticollis
- Intestinal Malrotation
- Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR)
- Intussusception
- Jaundice in Healthy Newborns
- Lead Poisoning
- Meconium Aspiration
- Medical Care and Your 1- to 3-Month-Old
- Medical Care and Your 4- to 7-Month-Old
- Milk Allergy in Infants
- Necrotizing Enterocolitis
- Neonatal Infections
- Nut and Peanut Allergy
- Oral Thrush
- Port-Wine Stains
- Positional Plagiocephaly (Flattened Head)
- Pyloric Stenosis
- Retinopathy of Prematurity
- Sepsis
- Spina Bifida
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
- Tay-Sachs Disease
- Teething Tots
- The Facts on Undescended Testicles
- The NICU: Parents Talk (Video)
- Transient Tachypnea of the Newborn (TTN)
- When Your Baby Has a Birth Defect
- When Your Baby Is Born With a Health Problem
- When Your Baby's in the NICU
- Your Colicky Baby
Pregnancy Calendar
- A Week-by-Week Pregnancy Calendar
- Week 1
- Week 10
- Week 11
- Week 12
- Week 13
- Week 14
- Week 15
- Week 16
- Week 17
- Week 18
- Week 19
- Week 2
- Week 20
- Week 21
- Week 22
- Week 23
- Week 24
- Week 25
- Week 26
- Week 27
- Week 28
- Week 29
- Week 3
- Week 30
- Week 31
- Week 32
- Week 33
- Week 34
- Week 35
- Week 36
- Week 37
- Week 38
- Week 39
- Week 4
- Week 40
- Week 5
- Week 6
- Week 7
- Week 8
- Week 9
Q&As
- Are All X-Rays Risky During Pregnancy?
- Are Ultrasound "Snapshots" of Your Unborn Baby a Good Idea?
- Can Getting Immunizations Affect My Unborn Baby?
- Could That Lump Be a Hernia?
- How Can I Overcome Breastfeeding Difficulties?
- How Can I Tell if My Baby Is Constipated?
- How Do You Treat Pregnancy Hemorrhoids and Constipation?
- I Love My New Baby. So, Why Am I Sad?
- I'm Pregnant. Can I Lower My Baby's Food Allergy Risk?
- Is Breastfeeding a Good Form of Birth Control?
- Is My Baby Ready for Shoes?
- Is it Safe to Breastfeed if I Have the Flu?
- What Can I Do to Relieve My Pregnancy Backaches?
- What Can I Do to Stop Passing Gas During My Pregnancy?
- What Does "High-Risk" Pregnancy Mean?
- What Is the Apgar Score?
- What Is the Multiple Marker Test?
- When Can Babies Begin Drinking Cow's Milk?
- When Can I Take My Newborn Out in Public?
Pregnant or Breastfeeding? Recipes for You
- "Baked" Candied Sweet Potato
- 5-Minute Rice and Beans
- Apple French Toast
- Bean Burrito to Go
- Caesar Salad
- Carrot-Ginger Soup
- Chicken Salad With Apples
- Chocolate Pudding
- Coq au Vin
- Creamy Broccoli Soup
- Denver Omelet Sandwich
- Easy Turkey Lasagna
- Fortified Mashed Potatoes
- Garlic-Rosemary Oven Fries
- Greek Salad
- Lemon Chicken
- Lentil Rice Salad
- Mediterranean Turkey Burger
- Melon-Cucumber Smoothie
- Microwave Chicken Melt
- No-Fuss Chicken Quesadilla
- Pasta and Cheese
- Quick Baked Apple
- Quick and Easy Burrito
- Soy Berry Smoothie
- Spinach Salad
- Spinach, Pear, and Gruyere Salad with Sweet Dressing
- Tropical Smoothie
- Turkey Pepperoni and Mushroom Calzones
- Whole-Grain Chicken-Broccoli Pockets
- Yogurt Parfait
En español
- Circuncisión
- Conducto arterioso persistente (CAP)
- Costra láctea (dermatitis seborreica del lactante)
- Elegir productos seguros para su bebé: hamaquitas y sillas de seguridad infantiles
- La comunicación y su recién nacido
- Los sentidos y su recién nacido
- Movimiento, coordinación y su recién nacido
- NICU: Hablan los padres (video)
- Náuseas del embarazo de carácter grave (hiperémesis gravídica)
- Restricción del crecimiento intrauterino (RCIU)
- Traumatismo craneoencefálico por maltrato (síndrome del bebé sacudido)
- ¿Cómo puedo tranquilizar a mi bebé mientras le ponen inyecciones?
Su embarazo
- Anestesia epidural
- Asfixia por aspiración
- Cambiar los pañales a su bebé
- Clases de preparación para el parto
- Comadronas
- Consejo genético
- Cortarle las uñas a su bebé
- Cuando su bebé nace con un problema de salud
- Cuidado de la salud durante el embarazo
- Cómo convertirse en padres afecta su relación de pareja
- Cómo preparar a su hijo para la llegada de un nuevo bebé
- Cómo prepararse para un parto múltiple
- Dermatitis del pañal
- El aspecto de un recién nacido: qué es normal
- El estreñimiento
- El primer día de vida
- El sueño durante el embarazo
- El ácido fólico y el embarazo
- Exámenes prenatales
- Guía para padres primerizos
- Hacer ejercicio durante el embarazo
- Hacer eructar a su bebé
- Ictericia en recién nacidos sanos
- Inducción del parto
- Infecciones neonatales
- Lactancia materna versus lactancia artificial
- Lavar la ropa del bebé
- Manejo del dolor durante el parto
- Náuseas del embarazo de carácter grave (hiperémesis gravídica)
- Parto natural
- Planes para el nacimiento
- Precauciones a prueba de niños para prevenir accidentes caseros
- Precauciones durante el embarazo: respuestas a las preguntas más frecuentes
- Preguntas frecuentes acerca de la lactancia materna: Algunas inquietudes habituales
- Preguntas frecuentes acerca de la lactancia materna: Alimentos sólidos y complementos
- Preguntas frecuentes acerca de la lactancia materna: Cuánto y con qué frecuencia
- Preguntas frecuentes acerca de la lactancia materna: Cómo empezar
- Preguntas frecuentes acerca de la lactancia materna: Cómo guardar la leche materna
- Preguntas frecuentes acerca de la lactancia materna: Dolor y molestias
- Preguntas frecuentes acerca de la lactancia materna: Estar preparada y equipada
- Preguntas frecuentes acerca de la lactancia materna: Extracción de leche
- Preguntas frecuentes acerca de la lactancia materna: Oferta y demanda
- Preguntas frecuentes acerca de la lactancia materna: Su sueño y el de su bebé
- Preguntas frecuentes acerca de la lactancia materna: Sus hábitos alimenticios y de bebidas
- Recuperación del parto
- Si su hija adolescente va a tener un bebé
- Su bebé con cólicos
- Síndrome de alcoholismo fetal
- Vinculación con su bebé
- ¿Qué es la incompatibilidad Rh?
- ¿Qué es la puntuación de Apgar?
Calendario semanal del embarazo
- Calendario semanal del embarazo
- Semana 1
- Semana 10
- Semana 11
- Semana 12
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- Semana 2
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